Hmmm...we'll start without the medium for now.
JP Wheeler worked for MITRE in DC. What do you know about MITRE?
Tom Clancy's character Jack Ryan worked for them.
MITRE is a defense contractor with the Fed, working on various projects for Air Traffic Control, Defense systems, Homeland Security.
www.mitre.orgMITRE oversees a group of scientists with the acronym JASON. snip from WiKi...
"JASON studies have included a now-mothballed system for communicating with submarines using extremely long radio waves (Project Seafarer, Project Sanguine), an astronomical technique for overcoming the atmosphere's distortion (adaptive optics), the many problems of missile defense, technologies for verifying compliance with treaties banning nuclear tests, a 1982 report predicting CO2-driven global warming, and a system of computer-linked sensors developed during the Vietnam War which became the precursor to the modern electronic battlefield"
MITRE offers software solutions for SECRET data....as in code to erase the un-erasable....
http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/14.htmlMITRE does work with the .gov nuclear deployment halo....(see their military page)
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20020817-503544.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody remember...Nukes go offline?I'll stop there for now. What do the letters MITRE mean? (the company name) This definition from acronymfinder.com:
"[not an acronym but a company name] many mistakenly believe the letters stand for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research & Engineering But in reality: according to acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/MITRE.html it stands for
MITRE Missile Test and Readiness Equipment 
